# cari
## Aromanian
### Alternative forms

* care, cai

### Etymology

From Latin quālis, quālem. Compare Romanian care.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈka.ri/
* Rhymes: -ari
* Hyphenation: ca‧ri

### Determiner

cari
* which

### Pronoun

cari
* which, that, who

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

From Arabic جَارِي (jārī).

### Adjective

cari
* current (existing or occurring at the moment)
    Synonyms: hal-hazırkı, indiki

### Further reading

* “cari” in Obastan.com.

## French
### Alternative forms

* carry, kari

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ka.ʁi/

### Noun

cari m (plural caris)
* curry (spice blend and dish)
    Synonym: curry

### Further reading

* “cari”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* cira, cria

## Indonesian
### Alternative forms

* cahari (archaic)

### Etymology

From Malay cari, from Sanskrit चारिन् (cārin).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈt͡ʃa.ri/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ri
* Hyphenation: ca‧ri

### Verb

cari (active mencari, passive dicari, perfective passive tercari)
* (transitive) to find; to search; to seek (to try to find something whose whereabouts are unknown)
    Synonym: telusuri

#### Derived terms

* bercari
* bercari-cari
* bercari-carian
* cari-cari
* cari-carian
* carian
* carikan
* pencari
* pencarian
* tercari

### Further reading

* “cari” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈka.ri/
* Rhymes: -ari
* Hyphenation: cà‧ri

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

cari m pl (plural only)
* (people) Carians (ancient inhabitants of Caria in southwest Anatolia)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

cari m pl
* masculine plural of caro

#### Noun

cari m pl
* plural of caro

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

cari
* inflection of cariare:
** second-person singular present indicative
** first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* Acri, acri, arci-, crai

## Latin
### Adjective

cārī
* inflection of cārus:
** nominative/vocative masculine plural
** genitive masculine/neuter singular

## Latvian
### Noun

cari m
* nominative/vocative plural of cars

## Malay
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Malaysia):(file)

### Verb

cari (Jawi spelling چاري)
* to search, to look for, to seek

#### Derived terms

* carian

### Further reading

* “cari” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /kaˈɾi/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kɐˈɾi/
* Hyphenation: ca‧ri

### Noun

cari m (plural caris)
* Alternative form of acari

### Further reading

* “cari”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [karʲ]

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

cari
* second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of căra

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

cari m
* plural of car

### Etymology 3
#### Pronoun

cari
* Nonstandard form of care.

## Spanish
### Etymology

Short for cariño.

### Noun

cari m or f by sense (plural caris)
* (colloquial) darling, dear, lover

### Further reading

* “cari”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Turkish
### Alternative forms

* carî

### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish جاری (cari), from Arabic جَارِي (jārī).

### Adjective

cari
* current, prevailing, in effect
* usual, customary

### References

* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “cari”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “جاری”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 635
* Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

## Venetan
### Noun

cari m pl
* plural of caro

## Welsh
### Alternative forms

* ceri (literary)

### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /ˈkarɪ/
* (South Wales) IPA: /ˈkaːri/, /ˈkari/

### Verb

cari
* second-person singular future colloquial of caru

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.